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August 1969

Volume 22, Issue 8

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Crystallographers offer meetings within meetings

Walter C. Hamilton
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The Eighth Crystallography Congress, meeting this month in the US, offers every type of communication from crowded formal sessions to spontaneous gatherings by handfuls of specialists. Electronic communications will help participants get the most out of the meeting.

Crystals

Sidney C. Abrahams, Charles S. Barrett, and David Harker
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To probe a crystal one can use neutrons, x rays, electrons and now, protons. But crystallographers are scrutinizing the accuracy of their measurements. Improvements in crystal growing are leading to new solid‐state research, and huge biological molecules are being unravelled crystallographically.

The privilege of being a physicist

Victor F. Weisskopf
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Because of the central position of science in our civilization, physicists should be deeply concerned with the involvement of science in worldwide cultural and political affairs.

Electricity and rain

J. Doyne Sartor
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Why do the positive and negative charges separate in thunderclouds? What happens in the period between lightning flashes? How is air trapped in hailstones?

Three decades of fast‐neutron experiments

Henry H. Barschall
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Measurements of neutron cross sections and spectra have improved from the early days of homebuilt equipment through the war time developments in the Manhattan District to the present use of commercial accelerators and electronics.
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The employment crisis

Charles F. Robinson, William Silvert, and Susanne D. Ellis
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Continental drift?

William R. Cook, Donald L. Turcotte, and E. Ronald Oxburgh
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What happened to my journal?

Robert C. Johnson and Hugh C. Wolfe
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Unreasonable hotel rooms

Robert J. Yaes
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Weber Reports 1660‐Hz Gravitational Waves from Outer Space

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Matter Meets Antimatter in Akademgorodok

Gloria B. Lubkin
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Ultrasonic Microscope May Be More Sensitive, Nondestructive

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Josephson Effect Permits New Look at Fundamental Constants

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Hermes II Produces 150 000 Amperes of 13‐MeV Electrons

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In Brief

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Interest Grows in Semiconductor Instabilities

Cyril Hilsum
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Progress in Thin‐Film Studies Discussed in Boston

H. H. Wieder and Maurice Francombe
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The CP Puzzle: Strange Decays of the Neutral Kaon

P. K. Kabir and Robert G. Sachs, Reviewer
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Nuclear Matter and Nuclear Reactions

Ken Kikuchi, Mitsuji Kawai, and John L. Gammel, Reviewer
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Assumption and Myth in Physical Theory

H. Bondi and Lawrence Sklar, Reviewer
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Vacuum System Design

N. T. M. Dennis, T. A. Heppell, and J. H. Singleton, Reviewer
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Engineering Experimental Design Fundamentals

Edwin M. Bartee and Robert L. Weber, Reviewer
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Scanning Electron Microscopy: Application to Materials and Device Science

P. R. Thornton and L. Marton, Reviewer
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Strain Gauges: Kinds and Uses

Hermann K. P. Neubert and Richard B. Zipin, Reviewer
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Physics of Electronic Conduction in Solids

Frank J. Blatt and C. S. Koonce, Reviewer
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Applied Group Theory

Arthur P. Cracknell and Gerald Rothberg, Reviewer
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Solid State Physics: Advances in Research and Applications, Vol. 21

Frederick Seitz, David Turnbull, Henry Ehrenreich, Editor, and Daniel C. Mattis, Reviewer
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New Books

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Beams Retires at Virginia but Only to Go on Working

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OSA Ives Medal to David Rank of Pennsylvania State

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Lark‐Horovitz Prize Goes To Spears for Ultrasonics

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ANS Special Award To Arthur G. Ward

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Spencer Gets Gray Medal For Charged‐Particle Work

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Astronomer at Kitt Peak, R. W. Michie, 38, Dies

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W. H. Barkas Developed Nuclear‐Emulsion Method

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Ray Lee Edwards Was Professor for 58 Years

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AAPT Sets 1970 Competition For Short Teaching Films

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Phimsy

R. Hobart Ellis, Jr and Everett F. Cox
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IAEA Seeks Better Ways to Detect Nuclear‐Material Diversion

John P. Wiley, Jr
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How the President Gets his Science Advice: A Visit to OST

John P. Wiley
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Daddario Seeks Comment on Unifying Science Activities

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SATCOM Challenges Societies To Improve Their Publications

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In Brief

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Calendar

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We Need an Informed Conscience

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